Florida Panel Orders Hearing Over Engle Progeny Attorney Disqualification

(April 20, 2018, 1:57 PM EDT) -- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — After granting a motion for rehearing, a panel of the Fourth District Florida Court of Appeal on April 19 ordered that an evidentiary hearing be held by the trial court presiding over an Engle progeny suit to determine if a law firm should be disqualified from representing a plaintiff because one of its former attorneys had previously worked as an attorney defending tobacco companies in such cases (Dolores Balaban v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al., No. 4D17-2479, Fla. App., 4th Dist., 2018 Fla. App. LEXIS 5233)....

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